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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Photographer
Physicist
Bridgeport
Connecticut
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Edwin Herbert Land
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.
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We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.
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A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
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You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.
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A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.
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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
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The world belongs to the articulate.
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In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.
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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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